The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-26
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Panama canal shall have been opened. that the
iron products of the Alabama and Tennessee
section will be shipped on barges from points in
those States to be trans shipped at the mouth of
the Mississippi for Melbourne. Calcutta and
Shanghai underselling the English product"
The stovemolders throughout the West, hav-
ing had year or two of work, are taking an
other long holiday In a strike. The employers
are not disposed to make any concessions, and
decline to believe that the strike will become
general. The employers have defense associa-
ton which is very strong in money and pluck.
There is q good demand for engineering skill,
and all bright young men coming out of our
technical schools finding employment A
liberal percentage of them are weeded out after
two or three years, finding that they had mis-
taken their calling. The volunteers who attain
distinction are about as numerous as the gradu-
ates.
The latest talk in New England labor circles
is that new organization. to be called the In
ternationaI Shoe-workers' Trades Assembly, is
to be formed as an adjunct of the Knights OF
Labor The employers state that assessments
and dues have already killed off one-half of the
membership of that organization. The shoe
manufacturers expect the 'free-shop move
ment' to be success
new style of brick chimney has been intro
duced by an engineering company in Boston,
which can be erected for one-third less than the
Ordinary chimney. 1t can be built square or
round, and there is a space between the inside
to twelve inches larger at the top than at the
base, which allows of an expansion and relieves
the draught from friction. These chmneys are
said to be % per cent. better than others.
The electricians are working with renewed
zeal to perfect electric motors especially for
street-cars. An experiment is to be made in San
Francisco about May l. at which will be present
electricians from several cities. The trouble in
many appliances has been the use of belts,
sprocket wheels, chains and other devices. A
| car is operated at Orange, N. j., which can
make from ten to twelve miles an hour. The
| whole motor weight is placed directly on the
| axle.
The jewellers throughout the country are con-
graduating themselves upon the best season for
an all around trade they have ever had. Some
say diamonds are giving way to colored stones,
but that this makes business better, as dia-
monds returned ..in trade for other stones.
More costly settings belng introduced
Small jewelry shops employ from ten to twenty
| men, and large factories increasing Two
| watch works from Massachusetts will be re-
| moved to Canton, 0.
The announcements of new industrial enter
| prises in the South are numerous to cease
to be of special interest to any excepting those
| personally interested in the way of furnishing
| material or otherwise. An unusually large mum
ber of concerns TO be started this and mex,
MONTH among them foundry and machine shops
iron and steel works. works, hardware es
! tabshments, wagon works, etc. Despite the
abundant evidences of industrial prosperity
| news comes from various quarters of idle labor
| starving wages, and poor prospects for the
future; yet the aggregate of these complaints il
| trifng as compared with the general prosperity
| Labor is very scarce in nearly all of the rolling
mills, and here and there furnaces are idle il
| consequence.